Education
| 1998-2006 |
Ph.D., Philosophy, University of California, Los Angeles
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| 1994-96 |
M.A., Philosophy, University of London, United Kingdom |
1992-94 |
M.A., Classics, Dalhousie University, Canada |
1986-91 |
B.A., Classics, Dalhousie University |
Publications
10. Ontological Dependence and Grounding in Aristotle Oxford Handbooks Online in Philosophy. Forthcoming.
9. Is the Syllogistic a Logic? History and Philosophy of Logic. Forthcoming.
8. Aristotle on Predication. European Journal of Philosophy. Forthcoming. [preprint] (pdf)
7. Critical Notice of Michail Peramatzis, Priority in Aristotle's Metaphysics, Oxford University Press, 2011. Canadian Journal of Philosophy. Forthcoming. [draft] (pdf)
6. Substance and Independence in Aristotle. Varieties of Dependence, edd. Benjamin Schnieder, Alex Steinberg and Miguel Hoeltje. Basic Philosophical Concepts Series, Philosophia Verlag (Munich). 2013. Pp. 36-67. [preprint] (pdf)
5. Aristotle on Mathematical Truth. British Journal for the History of Philosophy. (2012) 20: 1057-76. [article] [offprint] (pdf)
4. Meta-conceivability. Philosophical Methodology. Special Volume of Essays in Philosophy, ed. James McBain. (2012) 13: 195-210. [article]
3. Attention, Perception and Thought in Aristotle. Dialogue (2010) 42: 199-222. [article][preprint] (pdf)
2. Aristotle on Nonsubstantial Individuals. Ancient Philosophy (2009) 29: 289-310. [article] [offprint] (pdf)
1. Aristotle on Ontological Dependence, Phronesis (2008) 53: 65-92. [article][offprint] (pdf)
Refereed Conference Proceedings
5. Snub. Newsletter for the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, 2013, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 22-8.
4. Aristotle on Mathematical Existence. Newsletter for the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, 2007, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 21-6.
3. Aristotle on Consciousness. Newsletter for the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, 2005, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 80-93.
2. Ontological Independence in Aristotle's Categories. Newsletter for the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, 2003, vol. 4, no. 1. 4000 words.
1. Parts and Properties in Aristotle's Categories. Newsletter for the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, 2002, vol. 3, no. 1. 4000 words.
Reviews
2. Review of Charles Kahn, Essays on Being, OUP, 2009, Journal of Hellenic Studies (2010) 130: 285-86. [article] [preprint] (pdf)
1. Review of Gisela Striker, Aristotle Prior Analytics Book 1. Clarendon, 2009, Journal of the History of Philosophy (2010) 48: 236-37. [article]
Work in Progress
Aristotle on Logical Consequence [draft] (pdf)
Presentism and Distributional Properties [draft] (pdf)
Invited Talks
7. Natural Priority in Aristotle. Invited Symposium: Aristotle on Ontological Priority, American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, Seattle, April 2012. Commentator: Alan Code.
5.-6. Is the Syllogistic a Logic? (1) Arché Centre, University of St Andrews. March 2012.
(2) University of California, Los Angeles. February 2012.
4. Is Aristotle an Aristotelian Realist? Ontological Dependence Conference, Colorado, March 2009. Commentator: Christian Lee. [Conference Site]
3. Aristotle. Guest lecture given in the History of Logic graduate seminar, Simon Fraser University, January 2006. [photographic proof]
1.-2. Aristotle on Logical Consequence. (1) University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, February 2005. (2) University of Alberta, January 2005.
Refereed Talks
25. Snub. Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy at the American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, San Francisco, April 2013.
24. Presentism and Distributional Properties. American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting, New Orleans, February 2013. Commentator: Andrew Bailey.
23. Aristotle on Quantification. International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 9th Biennial Meeting, Halifax, Canada, June 2012.
21-22. Aristotle on Existence. (1) Thirty-Fourth Annual Workshop in Ancient Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis, March 2011. Commentator: Robin Smith. (2) American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting, Boston, December 2010. Commentator: Tim Clarke.
20. Aristotle and the Foundations of Logic. Conference on the Foundations of Logical Consequence, Arché Centre, University of St. Andrews, June 2010. [Conference Site]
19. Aristotle on Reference and Generality. American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, San Francisco, April 2010. Commentator: Scott O'Connor.
18. Is Aristotle an Aristotelian Realist? American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting, New York, December 2009. Commentator: Jeff Brower.
16-17. Are Aristotle's Universals Sortals? (1) American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, Vancouver, April 2009. Commentator: Jurgis Brakis. (2) 2008 International Conference on Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, Fordham University, October 2008.
15. Apriority and Logical Constancy. Society for Exact Philosophy, Vancouver, May 2007.
13-14. Aristotle on Mathematical Existence. (1) American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, San Francisco, April 2007. Commentator: John Mouracade. (2) Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy at the American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting, Chicago, April 2007.
10-12. Aristotle on Consciousness. (1) Symposium Paper, American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, Portland, Oregon, March 2006. Commentators: Margaret Scharle, Paul Studtmann. (2) Canadian Philosophical Association Annual Congress, University of Western Ontario, May 2005. Commentator: Byron Stoyles. (3) American Philological Association Annual Meeting, Boston, January 2005.
9. Does Size Matter? Etchemendy's Finitist Argument. Northwest Philosophy Conference, Bellevue, Washington, October 2004. Commentator: Meggan Payne.
5-8. Aristotle on Logical Consequence. (1) Canadian Philosophical Association Annual Congress, Winnipeg, Manitoba, May 2004. Commentator: Dwayne Raymond. (2) American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting, Chicago, April 2004. Commentator: Michael Scanlan. (3) 2003 International Conference on Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, Fordham University, November 2003. Commentator: Tad Brennan. (4) Twenty-Sixth Annual Workshop in Ancient Philosophy at Texas A&M University, March 2003. Commentator: Robin Smith.
2-4. Ontological Independence in Aristotle's Categories. (1) Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy at the American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting, Washington, D.C., December 2003. (2) Berkeley-Stanford Philosophy Graduate Conference, Stanford, May 2003. Commentator: Neil Van Leeuwen. (3) Fourth Annual Rutgers-Princeton Graduate Conference in Philosophy, Princeton, April 2003. Commentator: Dimitrios Dentsoras.
1. Parts and Properties in Aristotle's Categories. Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy at the American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting, Philadelphia, December 2002.
Commentary
6. Comments on Kathy Fazekas, Special Relativity and Multiple B-Series. Society for the Philosophy of Time at the American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting, New Orleans, February 2013.
5. Comments on Jurgis Brakis, Aristotle's Homonyms Reconsidered. American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, San Diego, April 2011.
4. Comments on David Bronstein, Aristotle on Learning, Knowledge and Meno's Paradox in Posterior Analytics I 1. Western Canadian Philosophical Association Annual Meeting, Winnipeg, Manitoba, October 2005.
3. Comments on Dwayne Raymond, Drawing Upon an Ancient Logical Intuition. Canadian Philosophical Association Annual Congress, Winnipeg, Manitoba, May 2004.
2. Comments on David C. Williams, Aristotle on the Methodology of Mathematical Concept Acquisition: Resolving an Apparent Inconsistency Between Metaphysics 1077B16 and 1077B33. American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, Pasadena, March 2004.
1. Comments on John Thorp, Aristotle on Splitting the Semantic Atom. Canadian Philosophical Association Annual Congress, Halifax, Nova Scotia, June 2003.
Grants
Vice President Research Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada 4A Grant, $7500, 2013-14
American Philosophical Association Conference Grant, $2000, 2012
Faculty of Arts Conference Fund, $2000, 2012
Izaac Walton Killam Cornerstone Grant, $2400, 2010
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Standard Research Grant
# 410-2008-0431, Aristotle on Ontological Dependence, $18 424, 2008-12
HFASSR Travel Award, $800, 2006
New Faculty Startup Grant, $5000, 2005
Teaching
University of Alberta, Department of Philosophy 2005-present
Courses
Aristotle [advanced undergraduates]: Winter 2008, Winter 2009, Fall 2009, Fall 2010
Greek Philosophy to Plato [intermediate]: Fall 2005, Fall 2006
Honours Seminar: Winter 2011, Fall 2012
Introduction to Philosophy: Knowledge and Reality: Winter 2007-2011
Metaphysics [intermediate]: Fall 2005, Fall 2006, Fall 2007, Fall 2008, Winter 2010 [syllabus] (pdf)
Topics in Metaphysics: Parts and Wholes [graduates and advanced undergraduates]: Fall 2009 [syllabus] (pdf)
Topics in Metaphysics: Time and Truthmakers [graduates and advanced undergraduates]: Fall 2012 [syllabus] (pdf)
Topics in Ancient Philosophy: Aristotle's metaphysics [graduates and advanced undergraduates] Winter 2006, Winter 2007, Fall 2008 [syllabus] (pdf); Fall 2010
Topics in Ancient Philosophy: Aristotle's De Anima Fall 2007 [graduates and advanced undergraduates][syllabus] (pdf)
Supervision
Riin Sirkel, Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Postdoctoral Fellow, 2010-12 (supervisor)
Shaheen Islam, Reviewing Frege. Ph.D. Dissertation 2009 (supervisory committee member)
Seyed Mousavian, Empty Names and Neo-Russellianism. Ph.D. Dissertation 2008 (supervisory committee member)
Matthew Small, Matter, Extension and Intellect in Aristotle. M.A. Thesis 2012 exp. (supervisor)
Michael Flood, The Problem of Temporary Intrinsics. M.A. Thesis 2011 (supervisor)
Peter Dobozy, Holy Intertextual Identity Conditions, Batman! M.A. Thesis 2010 (supervisory committee member)
Yual Chiek, Leibniz and Trans-World Identity. M.A. Thesis 2006 (supervisory committee member)
James Bachmann, Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam Metaphysics 2009
Bart Lenart, Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam Metaphysics 2009
Jason Taylor, Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam Metaphysics 2008
Matthew Small, Graduate Directed Reading, Ancient 2010
Charles Roger, Graduate Directed Reading, Ancient 2006
John Kardosh, Roger S. Smith Undergraduate Researcher Award, 2008 (supervisor)
University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Philosophy 2004-5
Ancient Seminar: Aristotle's Logical Works [graduate seminar]: Fall 2004
Plato [graduates and advanced undergraduates]: Spring 2005
History of Ancient Philosophy [crosslisted with Classics]: Fall 2004, Spring 2005
